Taylor Swift's Lawyers Threaten Private Jet Flight Tracker Over 'Stalking and Harassing Behavior'
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Taylor Swift's legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to the operator of an account that tracks her private jet flights, citing safety concerns.
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    As The Washington Post reports, the letter was sent to Jack Sweeney, the same programmer and University of Central Florida student briefly suspended from X in Dec. 2022 after his jet tracking account rankled Elon Musk.

    At the time, Musk characterized the tracking of aircraft as a form of “doxxing,” and compared sharing this flight info — which, again, is culled from publicly available Federal Aviation Administration data — to dropping his “assassination coordinates.”

    They threatened to take legal action if Sweeney didn’t stop his “stalking and harassing behavior” and accused the jet tracker account of causing Swift and her family “direct and irreparable harm, as well as emotional and physical distress.”

    To that end, it seems Sweeney received the December cease-and-desist letter around the same time his @TaylorSwiftJets Instagram account shared a post estimating the carbon footprint left by Swift’s travel tied to her Eras Tour and budding relationship with Travis Kelce (allegedly 138 tons of CO2 emissions in three months).

    Curiously, the accounts he maintains on those same platforms tracking the jets of other celebs and public figures — including Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and even Instagram and Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg — remain up.

    Back in Aug. 2022, the sustainability marketing firm Yard used public flight data to rank the celebrities whose private jets had flown the most that year and subsequently spewed the most carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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